On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
And manual approval. 'niceuser' suddenly renaming itself to "Brion is a ***" is not good.
Well, neither is creating a brand-new account with that name and can't do much about that except block the account(s), which is what would happen in either case. Also in either case the account would be forcibly renamed to something completely different if the name is too offensive.
So what's the difference, the number of edits? Maybe you could let regular admins rename the really common cases where some new user misspelled their namesake pokémon, or forgot to capitalize their surname, or included a swearword, etc. but require that serious "bigrename" users (with, I don't know... 5,000–10,000 edits) have to talk to a crat.
Seems like a reasonable compromise to me.
—C.W.